This self-study webinar is designed for accountants and financial statement users who want to remain on the cutting edge of the most recent accounting pronouncements affecting not-for-profits. You’ll be equipped to:
- Follow current accounting standards for not-for-profits (ASC 958)
- Understand recent guidance revising NPO financial statements
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Apply accounting standards that impact nonprofits
To provide a deep dive into the most recent accounting pronouncements and issues impacting not-for-profits. This course focuses on understanding the accounting standards affecting nonprofits, implementing and using current authoritative literature, and reviewing the latest GAAP issues regarding NPOs.
- Review of recent not-for-profit accounting standards
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How NPO financial statements and required disclosures changed
– Use of “operating measures”
– Liquidity disclosures
– Reporting functional expenses
– Statement of cash flows - Net assets, endowment funds, and UPMIFA
- Distinguish among contributions, exchange transactions, and pass-throughs
- Restrictions and conditions
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Consolidations and goodwill for NPOs
– New rules for goodwill amortization
– When and how NPOs consolidate for-profits - Valuation and disclosure of investments
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Recent FASB guidance affecting NPOs
– Revenue recognition
– Leases
– Fair value
– FASB Simplification Initiative - Valuing gifts-in-kind and gifts of non-financial assets
- Allocating joint costs
- Collections update
• Identify mandatory NFP financial statements and titles
• Identify the ramifications of ASU 2016-01 on not-for-profits relative to for-profits
• Recognize the changes in accounting for goodwill impairments by not-for-profits under both ASU 2017-04 and ASU 2019-06
• Recognize the characteristics of governmental entities
• Identify the delayed effective date of the lease accounting standard on private not-for-profits due to COVID-19 concerns
• Identify the accounting for contribution revenue by a not-for-profit
• Recognize the accounting for a conditional transfer of cash made to a not-for-profit
• Recognize factors indicative of risk in recording revenue for an unconditional promise to give
• Recognize the accounting for contributed services to a not-for-profit
• Identify the accounting for donated securities
• Identify the terminology associated with the power to modify restrictions on a charitable fund
• Recognize necessary disclosures when a not-for-profit transfers assets to a recipient organization and specifies itself or an affiliate as a beneficiary
• Identify the accounting treatment of service concession arrangements under ASU 2014-05
• Recognize the accounting treatment for collections of art or similar collections
• Recognize the applicability of ASU 2019-03 on both not-for-profits and for-profits
• Recognize the accounting treatment of joint costs of a not-for-profit
• Identify the ramifications of balance sheet classifications of net assets on a not-for-profit’s balance sheet
• Identify the primary categories of expenses under a not-for-profit’s functional reporting
• Identify the options for reporting the cash flows from operations under ASU 2016-14
• Identify the overall effect of ASU 2016-14 on a not-for-profit’s disclosures